People with disabilities disproportionately experience negative health outcomes. Purposeful
analysis of information on all aspects of the experience of disability across individuals and …

Objectives Biomedical natural language processing tools are increasingly being applied for
broad-coverage information extraction—extracting medical information of all types in a …

Objectives Normalizing mentions of medical concepts to standardized vocabularies is a
fundamental component of clinical text analysis. Ambiguity—words or phrases that may refer …

Frailty is an important health outcomes indicator and valuable for guiding healthcare
decisions in older adults, but is rarely collected in a quantitative, systematic fashion in …

Abstract Background Secondary use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) has mostly
focused on health conditions (diseases and drugs). Function is an important health indicator …

Linking clinical narratives to standardized vocabularies and coding systems is a key
component of unlocking the information in medical text for analysis. However, many …

Functional health status is an important factor not only for determining overall health, but
also for measuring risks of adverse events. Our hypothesis is that important functional status …

Background Human activity and the interaction between health conditions and activity is a
critical part of understanding the overall function of individuals. The World Health …

Function is increasingly recognized as an important indicator of whole-person health,
although it receives little attention in clinical natural language processing research. We …

Assessing how individuals perform different activities is key information for modeling health
states of individuals and populations. Descriptions of activity performance in clinical free text …